Explosives seized from Birbhum village

SURI: Around 15 quintals of explosives were seized from a village in Birbhum on Monday night. Alok Rajouria, police super of Birbhum, said that acting on a tip-off, a police team led by Koteswar Rao, SDPO, Rampurhat, raided a house at Senbandha village in Rampurhat sub-division. Huge quantities of gelatin sticks and detonators were found in boxes.

Three persons, Basudev Ghosh, Sujit Das and Sukdev Ghosh, were arrested from the spot. Rajouria said, "Recently, a man was arrested with gelatin sticks. During interrogation he gave some clues. On the basis of those clues the raid was conducted. While three persons have been arrested, some others managed to flee".

"These explosives might have been kept to be sold to stone miners but we do not rule out other possibilities," the police super added. The three arrested persons were produced in Rampurhat court. They have been sent to seven days police custody by the court.